Another hypothetical
But what if it becomes a race between four viable candidates instead of two, plus an optional Nader slot?
Hillary, Obama, McCain, Bloomberg, and Ron Paul.
I’d love to see that. Having more viable candidates in the general election would do wonders to help the douche-and-turd problem.
I don’t think this will happen—but I thought it would be interesting. Bloomberg wanted to run if he felt the two major party options were too polarizing. I think that means if McCain didn’t win for the Republicans and Hillary won for the democrats. So I don’t think Bloomberg will run.
I also think Huckabee will be McCain’s running mate. I think Huckabee will stay in the race long enough to get a good chunk of conservative support. Then McCain will take Huckabee as sort of an appology to conservatives. It will hurt him with the center and the left, but he needs some conservative support.
Ron Paul probably will run as an independent. Or perhaps he’ll start his own “Constitutional” party. He could run libertarian, but I’m guessing he’ll form his own party. And we’re likely to have Nader as well. But neither of those will be very significant. Ron Paul might take a chunk of conservative vote, but 5% at most.
